You know the conversation starter. It’s the one struggling before the groan, ‘so what do you?’ Depending on how far I want to take it, I might just say, I work with computers. That’s a little misleading and I like to come across as a little more interesting. So I might and do say, I’m a writer. This is a mistake. The answer inevitably is, so what do you write?
Speeches, I say, I’m a speechwriter. There is normally a break at this point. How interesting, some say. Others say, I never imagined someone could make a living at writing speeches. A third group intrigued by the possibilities ask, so who do write speeches for?

Anyone I say, anyone with a speech to give: graduations, birthdays, eulogies, awards ceremonies, business proposals, conference speeches, motivational speeches, persuasive, informative, the list is endless: the job absorbing, challenging and entirely fascinating. I’ll stand up and give a speech on it one day.

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‘There are nine million bicycles in Beijing’, Kate Melua sings rather beautifully. It’s a fact, a statistic, a figure. But you are listening. Whether is true or not (if I was the writer, I’d have checked this out by now), it has your attention. I mean, you want to know exactly where the song is going and how that fact ties in.

The attention getter is up and running. Speeches aren’t generally sung. Now that might add a totally new dimension to my job at www.speech-writers.com. They’re delivered by nervous people doing everything they can do to give the impression of being in control. So that attention getter is all the more important. Get that right and everyone wants to know where you are headed. They are listening. They might even be laughing (with you, of course)…..but then that is another story.

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